On 4/5/00 8:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> If I have a folder (A1) containing two folders (B1 & B2) and my MC program in
> folder B1 wants to look for a file in folder B2, can a *relative* path be
> written to go from folder B1 to B2?
>
> For example, if my MC program "myProgram.exe" is in file B1 and I want to
> read a text file "theText.txt" in folder B2, is there a way to go *up* one
> level and then back to the appropriate folder in the path? Something like:
>
> open file "A1/B2/theText.txt" (which I tried but doesn't work)
Try:
open file "../B2/theText.txt"
The "../" jumps up one level.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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